All Quotes

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
‐‐ Jean Cocteau

Art raises its head where creeds relax.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.
‐‐ Anselm Kiefer

Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands.
‐‐ Sonam Kapoor

Art requires choices, the more specific, the better.
‐‐ Jesse Kellerman

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
‐‐ Paul Gauguin

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
‐‐ Charles Eames

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.
‐‐ Kathleen Hanna

Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.
‐‐ Jeff Koons

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.
‐‐ Robert Smithson

Art's power of persuasion resides in the small personal details of one's own story, and if it weren't for my struggle with dyslexia, I doubt I'd ever have become a writer or known how to teach others to write.
‐‐ Philip Schultz

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
‐‐ Jeanette Winterson

Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.
‐‐ T. C. Boyle

Art-school girls are very nice.
‐‐ Anthony Mackie

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
‐‐ Malcolm Mclaren

Art seduces, but does not exploit.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
‐‐ Fernando Botero

Art should be created for life, not for the museum.
‐‐ Jean Nouvel

Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
‐‐ John Lydon

Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.
‐‐ Gerhard Richter

Art should never be held above our decency to each other.
‐‐ Allison Anders

Art should never be limited - the beauty of art is that it gives us the freedom to go places where we wouldn't go to in our normal lives. Inside, I'm just so many different people. I go from the pretty girl on the red carpet to the singer at Ozzfest, spitting in the crowd. That's Jada.
‐‐ Jada Pinkett Smith

Art should not be bound by barriers or language. The Hindi film industry is a testament to that. We speak only Hindi, but we premiere in Germany and Japan. Our films do phenomenally well there. We transcend the barriers of language and culture. We welcome you in. I think that's what art should be, and I hope America reaches that place.
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.
‐‐ Eriq La Salle

Art should walk a tightrope. That's what art should be. Art should be dangerous. You can't be scared to say something with it. People love to talk about how comics are real art and real literature, so why not use these characters to talk about real things, even if it is dangerous?
‐‐ Jeff Lemire

Art shouldn't be prohibited in public schools when kids in private schools always get it.
‐‐ Agnes Gund

Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as well. It may seem ironic from one perspective, but I think if you look at my overall strategy, it's actually not out of step.
‐‐ Shepard Fairey

Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.
‐‐ John Maeda

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
‐‐ Michael Korda

Art, that great undogmatized church.
‐‐ Ellen Key

Art? That's a man's name.
‐‐ Andy Warhol

Art thou the King of the Jews?
‐‐ Pontius Pilate

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
‐‐ Jeff Koons

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
‐‐ Mark Rothko

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.
‐‐ Maggie Nelson

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
‐‐ Childe Hassam

Art transcends cultural boundaries.
‐‐ Thomas Kinkade

Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.
‐‐ Richard Phillips

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.
‐‐ Julia Cameron

Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

Art was a way for me to express myself and for me to also escape because it was tough growing up as a child. We didn't have a lot of money. I was always creating. I was writing stories. I was doing comic books. I made my own universe.
‐‐ Michelle Phan

Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.
‐‐ Jamie Wyeth

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.
‐‐ Nic Pizzolatto

Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out.
‐‐ Benny Green

Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.
‐‐ David Bowie

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
‐‐ Jeff Koons

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.
‐‐ Nile Rodgers